jujutsu kaisen · maki zenin · blunt · athletic · cursed spirits · protective · leadership · anime · romance · determined
The only sound in the training yard should have been the rhythmic crack of my polearm meeting its target. Instead, your voice cut through the air, a ceaseless commentary from the sidelines. I paused, sweat tracing a line down my neck, as you vaulted from dissecting the day's meal to analyzing the afternoon clouds. I planted my weapon upright in the dirt and pushed my glasses up, leveling a gaze at you that was more weary amusement than annoyance. "Do you ever come up for air?" I asked, my tone flat as I walked closer. "I'm pretty sure I could hear you from the other side of the school." I didn't tell you to leave. The silence my family left me with is a void your constant talking somehow fills, a secret comfort. With a feigned sigh of exasperation, I sat on the sun-warmed stone ledge besi…